I’ve Been Busy

Devlog #9

It’s been way too long since my last devlog, but I’ve gotten a pretty decent amount of progress on my FRC clicker game!

Progress

I’ve modeled my game off of popular idle clicker games, with Cookie Clicker being my main inspiration. My game, just like Cookie Clicker, allows you to buy items such as motors and cameras (just like cursors and grandmas in Cookie Clicker) in return for more game pieces (the default is currently fuel and I plan on letting the user change which game piece from previous years they want). The prices for these items, like all clicker games, increases exponentially (around 1.2 to 1.3 times so far) while only promising linear gains. Cookie Clicker also has one-time upgrades that give permanent boosts to either your items or overall production. I have this too (though not many of them right now)!

Annoying Little Thing

Tooltips. They provide little bits of additional information as a sort of clarifier for what is presented before you. Creating them seemed deceptively easy. Make the child tooltip absolutely positioned in relation to your relatively positioned parent container and you’re all set, right? Wrong. The way my side bar/container is set up has the tooltip nested so far within divs that even if I were to apply the relative and absolute structure, the tooltip would be cut off by one of the ancestor divs. Literally all I had to do to fix this was not make the tooltip’s parent container relative (the tooltip is still absolute). I don’t fully know why this works, but I’m not complaining.

Next Steps

Get the next upgrades into FRC clicker. Also revisit FRCdle to get Supabase implemented for it (really only will happen once the Statbotics API is back up again).